Factoring Drowsiness

I noticed that I've been doing a lot of ranting lately so I'm going to stop, or pause at least. I don't want to give the impression that I'm on the warpath all the time or even at the moment. I'm in a perfectly good mood. I'm just reacting to what pops up in front of me at any given moment.

What's popped up today is a feeling of tiredness that doesn't usually come this early in the week. It may have something to do with getting an unpleasant phone call at 1:30 in the morning. Shout out to Davida here, but she wasn't the one who called me.

So after the phone call (which ended up being nothing awful) I got back in bed but was too wound up to lie there, much less fall asleep. So I went downstairs and turned on the TV. For some reason, it was on a public TV station with a guy named Rick Steves doing a travel show about someplace, maybe Vienna, that looked both stuffy and boring. Perfect!

Of course, like anything else, there's a proper way to lull yourself to the proper state of sleepiness. The skill is in balancing the drowsiness factor. You want to be drowsy enough that you can get right to sleep once you get in bed but not drowsy enough that you fall asleep on the momentarily comfortable but ultimately back-spasming couch. I have to admit I failed, though not entirely. A total fail would have had me still asleep on the couch when my daughter came down to eat breakfast. I woke up at 3, stumbled into bed and fell right to sleep.